Gas
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Beach Energy
Shares crash over building delays and cost blowout at troubled WA gas plant
Beach Energy shares plummeted in early trading on Monday, with its chief executive conceding extreme disappointment over quality issues in the late-stage WA project.
- by Peter Milne
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LNG giants escape export clampdown this winter as supplies lift
East coast gas producers will avoid facing unprecedented orders to break export contracts and redirect supplies to Australian buyers this winter.
- by Nick Toscano
After years of promises on climate change, oil giants are backtracking
Fossil fuel majors are choosing profits over plans to bring a clean future closer.
- by Nick O'Malley
Beach Energy to slash almost a third of its staff in cost-cutting push
The Kerry Stokes-backed oil and gas producer will lay off 30 per cent of its workforce and overhaul its executive leadership team in a bid turn the company around.
- by Nick Toscano
Australia’s fossil fuel giants set to take multibillion-dollar hit
Australia’s gas and coal exporters face a tricky next five years with prices expected to keep tumbling.
- by Nick Toscano
How Sydneysiders could save $730 a year by ditching gas
NSW residents could save $1.1 billion and the equivalent of 1 million tonnes of COâ‚‚ emissions a year by swapping gas for electricity.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Greens threaten Labor’s fuel rules over gas project push
A controversial reform to offshore gas project assessments, which was expected to be debated in the Senate this week, has been paused.
- by Mike Foley
Energy sector in race to fix gas crunch as supply fears deepen
Time is running out to avert gas shortfalls and price spikes in Australia’s south-east as local production of the fossil fuel plummets faster than demand.
- by Nick Toscano
Energy shortage fears prompt minister to pump up new gas projects
Federal Resources Minister says new gas production projects in NSW, Victoria would be optimal solution to gas shortages.
- by Mike Foley
From Holden cars to a $6.3b project: Vikas Rambal’s WA adventure
The Indian engineer arrived in Perth wanting to check out cars and perhaps build a solar farm. The stakes quickly got bigger.
- by Peter Milne
Minister in talks with gas exporters to lock in local supplies
Australia’s gas exporters are edging closer to a deal with the Albanese government that would boost supplies and help temper fears of looming shortages.
- by Nick Toscano and Mike Foley